Joel Bartilotta 
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Aces and Bases, where I’ll be going through the top MLB DFS Aces and Stacks on DraftKings and Fanduel.
It’s Wednesday and that means day baseball! We have ourselves a nice-looking 9-game slate of MLB DFS this afternoon. This slate offers a little bit of everything. Solid arms and bad arms will be plentiful.
Let’s dig and make some money!
MLB DFS Aces – Main
Clayton Kershaw vs. Milwaukee Brewers
We’re going to dial back the clock a bit and go with Clayton Kershaw. He’s facing off against a Brewers team that has been dreadful vs. lefties this season. This afternoon’s projected lineup for the Brewers has a strike-out rate over 28% vs. lefties on the year and has done little in the way of power as they have a .123 ISO and a .281 wOBA. This is a great spot for Kershaw today to rebound from his rough outing vs. the Padres. Look for Kershaw to have a monster day today.
Eduardo Rodriguez vs. Cleveland Guardians
Eduardo Rodriguez is having a really nice bounce-back year after a pretty poor 2022. Over the last month, Rodriguez has an ERA under 1 and a strikeout rate of over 27%. When hitters have been making contact against him, it’s been mostly weak contact as they have only a 23% hard-hit rate.
He’ll be facing a disappointing Guardians lineup. This is also a lineup that has really struggled vs. lefties this season. They have just a .635 OPS and .281 wOBA. This is a spot where Rodriguez should continue his dominating run.
Other arms that I’ll be interested in today will be Christian Javier vs. the Angels and Merrill Kelly vs. Miami.
MLB DFS Stacks – Main
New York Yankees vs. Kyle Muller
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. The Yankees so far have put up 17 runs during the first 2 games of this series. With Kyle Muller on the mound, there’s no reason to think they’re going to slow down today. Muller has been bad. Over his last 6 starts, he’s given up at least 4 ER in 5 of them. The one time that he didn’t was against a below-average offense in the Reds.
In his last 23 innings of work, he’s allowed 11 barrels and 5 homers. Just a dream scenario for the Yankees this afternoon. I’m not going to be overly concerned with splits in this one because his numbers have been neutral.
While Aaron Judge will be the main draw here, I’m going to look to prioritize getting three of his teammates into my lineup today. Those guys are Anthony Rizzo, Gleyber Torres, and Harrison Bader. These 3 have been tearing the cover off the ball of late. In last night’s 10-run outing, they combined for 7 hits, 6 RBI, and 5 runs scored. All 3 of them have also been hitting lefties extremely well this season.
I won’t talk you out of playing Judge today, but make sure you also get these 3 into your lineup. With it being against A’s today, anyone that makes the lineup today for the Yankees is in play. Full stack here
San Francisco Giants vs. Josiah Gray
Josiah Gray hasn’t pitched poorly this season but this game today just doesn’t set up well for him. He’s a flyball pitcher pitching in a stadium that’s expected to have 20 MPH winds today blowing out to center field. Those flyballs that haven’t been leaving the ball will have some extra giddy-up on them today if they enter that wind.
The Giants have also been fairly powerful vs. righties this season. The Giants projected lineup today has a .219 ISO vs. lefties. If you combine the power of the Giants and the wind and Gray’s flyball tendencies, there’s the potential for some damage today.
The bats that I want here are going to be LaMonte Wade, Thairo Estrada, and JD Davis. Wade has been really good vs. righties this season, with a .411 wOBA and a .234 ISO. He’s set up to do well today. I also really like Estrada here. He’s been one of the more consistent Giants bats of late. Over his last 25 AB, he has 8 hits and has combined for 9 runs and RBI. He’s pricey at $5.5k but in a great spot.
I can also be talked into playing Joc Pederson and possibly Michael Conforto. Conforto is a little lost at the plate right now but has a ton of power and can easily take Gray deep today.
Other stacks I’m interested in today will be the A’s vs. Jhonny Brito, the Nats vs. Sean Manaea, and potentially the Tigers vs. Peyton Battenfield. With the A’s, a complete game stack of the A’s/Yankees game is very much in play. The cheapness of the A’s will counteract the costly Yankees bats and Brito just hasn’t been good.
MLB DFS Summary
We’ve got a lot of day baseball today and that normally means we really need to keep an eye on lineups today. Things can get wonky on day games after night games. The Yankees will 100% be my building blocks today.
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